My Healthcare Story – Ed Schilling

In the middle of September 2001, just after 9/11, my wife lost her job at Medtronic in Santa Rosa, California. Medtronic makes medical devices like stents and catheters, but the company at that time moved its production line work to India. My wife lost her medical...

Gerald W. Hunt: What Single Payer Offers

Single payer offers financing of universal, comprehensive healthcare services, meaning eye doctors, dentists, and bulk-purchased pharmaceuticals, as well as “common” medical services.  Health insurers offer stylized financial concoctions (plans) of care...

Lily Tomlin as Ernestine

Speaking for Controlled Healthcare Insurance Corp., the incomparable Ernestine tells a patient, “Life itself is a pre-existing condition. Our prescription for it: Don’t get sick!” That’s the only way to stay ahead of the insurance companies...

Ken Howard

The purpose of insurance is to share the risk. That’s why it puzzles Ken Howard when he hears people say they don’t want to pay for somebody else’s health care. After all, we’re all going to get sick or old someday. That’s why single...